It all began when Lily Allen signed to Regal records towards the end of last year and, at the same time, started putting tracks up on the internet. Since then she has had a staggering million plus people listen to her music on myspace, whilst her weekly blogs have spread details of her increasingly eventful life across the world.
Her two free mixtapes, audacious mixes of her own music with a disparate selection of other tunes, have become collectors items in their own right.
Her first ever live show in August were a sell out, with a dedicated following of female fans, who Lily memorably christened ‘The Lilettes’, even flying over from Texas, determined to see her first ever show.
Says Lily: “A lot of female artists, and male ones for that matter, are boring singers who don’t say anything. Certainly not to my generation. With the kind of music I do you have to be direct and quite literal. I don’t play an instrument, which really makes me focus on the vocal melody, and the lyrics are incredibly important to me. I’ll beat myself up for ages over one line because I don’t feel that the song flows as a story”.
Of the record’s eleven tracks, Lily says:
“I find it funny, that record company- speak of ‘how many singles have you got?. I mean, why don’t you just try and do an album of 11 singles, instead of three? So that’s what I did”.
And there’s more: “Pop should be popular, but exciting and interesting, like T.Rex and the Clash. Steps and S Club 7 shouldn’t have been called pop – they should have beencalled shit ”.
Lily Allen’s debut album “Alright, Still” is out now on Regal.
for more info: www.lilyallenmusic.com
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